Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Boris Vian Quotes
"There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly." — Boris Vian
Donald Miller Quotes
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself." - Donald Miller
source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Louis Armstrong Quotes
"Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be better. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying." - Louis Armstrong
source: Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)
source: Spoken intro to "What a Wonderful World" (1970 version)
Ella Fitzgerald Quotes
"I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story." - Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington Quotes
"Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there’s no proof of it."
John McLaughlin Quotes
"At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds." - John McLaughlin
Duke Ellington Quotes
"Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited." - Duke Ellington
Cab Calloway Quotes
"What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't." - Cab Calloway
Billie Holiday Quotes
"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain." - Billie Holiday
